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Meanwhile, in Florida two 19-year-old kids, Earl Dew and Walter Taylor, were giving railbirds something more exciting to think about. Jockey Dew, a shy, baby-faced farm boy from Sac City, Iowa, had burned up Western tracks all year. Jockey Taylor, a skinny, swaggering hustler from Houston had booted home winner after winner on Eastern tracks. By last fortnight, Peewee Dew tallied 280 winners since Jan. 1; Peewee Taylor...
Booting home the most winners means a lot to a jockey: it crowns him national riding champion, often helps land a contract with a rich stable, a chance to ride in big-money stake races, where owners usually give jockeys 10% of their winnings. So last fortnight, when Jockey Dew, racing in California, realized that an idle week gave his Eastern rival a chance to overtake him, he hopped a plane, flew to Florida to fight it out with young Taylor at Tropical Park...
...disgust, Invader Dew discovered that Taylor's agent had dated up most of the live horses (favorites). In the first four days, Taylor won nine races; Dew won two. Christmas Day, with Taylor only three wins behind, both kids were as "touchy as gamecocks. In one race in which they were both riding, Dew, coming up on the outside, crowded Taylor. Taylor gave Dew the whip. Both finished out of the money. They walked back to the jockey room side by side; the moment they reached the doorway, they went at one another in an old-fashioned goto. "Just...
Shake your chains to earth like dew...
...dew in April...